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[Googi]

The price of diamonds is playerbase regulated. The prices of ultra-rare items are largely outside the bounds of supply and demand as the supply is often zero outside of USD markets (sometimes an ultra-rare item will go up for trade but the request will be another ultra-rare item that cannot be obtained except, again, through USD markets). You aren't going to get this stuff with dias and RoWs.

[StrykerTFFD]

Thanks Googi. I was kind of expecting you to come along and make the point I was trying to make but couldn't quite get across.

[StrykerTFFD]

Yeah, I wasn't saying thanks to you Sam.

Originally Posted by StrykerTFFD

You clearly don't understand supply and demand. If Supply is Up, Demand is Down, Price is Down. If Supply is Low, Demand is Up, Price is Up. That's Supply and Demand and only applies to this case in this way: The rare items are being horded by the older, higher level players. They CONTROL the Supply and can put whatever Price they want reguardless of the Demand. The younger players either pay the high prices or go without. This also forces younger players who find items like diamonds to use the higher prices on diamonds to SURVIVE as they have no other means of income.

Originally Posted by Googi

The price of diamonds is playerbase regulated. The prices of ultra-rare items are largely outside the bounds of supply and demand as the supply is often zero outside of USD markets (sometimes an ultra-rare item will go up for trade but the request will be another ultra-rare item that cannot be obtained except, again, through USD markets). You aren't going to get this stuff with dias and RoWs.

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Read the bolded parts. That's the points I'm talking about. Your diamond examples don't concern me. I don't mention diamonds anywhere, except as an example where players need to continue the high prices to keep up with the ways of income.

EDIT:To make this more clear, the prices of diamonds and brutals have gone in a reverse direction.Their costs aren't controlled by players, rather they're controlled by those who have the money to overpay for them. High leveled players, those who are richer than the younger players, toss up high offers in order to buy out the younger players, not give them a chance. I mean look at the costs of brutals. They're insane. Who can afford those other than people who are trying to buy them in mass and power level? That's my feeling on diamonds, since you keep bringing them up.